The last three astronauts of Expedition 29 to the International Space Station returned safely to Earth today, at 8:26 am local time in Kazakhstan (0226 GMT). This image shows the tumbled Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft that delivered them safely into the frozen landscape all around.
The capsule landed on the outskirts of ... |
22 November 2011
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The age of an impact crater has a tremendous influence on how the structure looks like to an external observer. The formation in this image, called the Bigach Impact Crater, is located in northeastern Kazakhstan, but its nature is not immediately visible from the ground.
Its interior is relatively flat, but the im... |
3 October 2011
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Google has refused to comply with a new requirement in Kazakhstan which now demands that all websites using a .kz domain name must have servers physically located in the country. Google has criticized the move, saying it creates an internet with borders and limits the experience for local users. As such, the company ... |
8 June 2011
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Kaspersky Lab reports that the number of hosts infected with Stuxnet in Iran has been slowly decreasing since July, but has spiked in Kazakhstan and Russia this month.The Stuxnet industrial espionage worm has been in the news a lot recently. Considered by many as the most sophisticated malware of all time, peopl... |
27 September 2010
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When our ancestors learned how to domesticate animals, society took a giant leap forward. Having the ability to get rid of carrying burdens, and transferring the load on animals meant that our forefathers had more energy, free hands, and so on. Their ability to survive and move faster from one place to the other also... |
28 November 2009
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Early on Sunday morning, onlookers near the Russian space agency's Baikonur Cosmodrome could see the conical Soyuz TMA-14 capsule descend from the skies attached to its parachute, following a short descent from aboard the International Space Station. It returned home former International Space Station (ISS) Comm... |
12 October 2009
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A helicopter crash in Russia, which took place in January, brought to the media's attention a phenomenon that may be very widespread within the country's elite – that of hunting endangered animal species, which are on the brink of extinction, from up in the air. The aforementioned crash killed seven i... |
6 May 2009
10:53 GMT |
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NASA has announced that the Expedition 18 crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS) has successfully undocked from the orbital lab at 11:52 pm EDT (0352 GMT) on Tuesday, and that it is currently on route to the steppes of Kazakhstan, where it's due to land at 3:16 am EDT (0716 GMT). The flight began at 2... |
8 April 2009
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The world's busiest spaceport is located in Kazakhstan and is operated by the Russian Federation. The Asian nation has leased the land on which the 7,000-square-kilometer-large cosmodrome is located, deep within the Kazakh steppe, and so the Russians have the right to use it until 2050. They have to pay approxim... |
26 March 2009
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Living a long and full life is one of people's most intimate desires, but for an old lady in Kazakhstan this wish has come true a long time ago. Officials in the country, who have identified the woman, say that she will soon celebrate her 130th birthday, which makes her 16 years older than the individual that ha... |
25 March 2009
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New scientific research pushes back the date of the first recorded human uses of horses more than 1,000 years. University of Exeter scientist Alan Outram and his team have found in Kazakhstan evidences that the native Botai culture had been using horses as beasts of burden and sources of milk and food for at least 5,... |
6 March 2009
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Imaginary conversation between two guys. A: Dude, check my site, here's the link! B: What site, dude? A: This site! B: Page cannot be displayed. A: Oh, the authorities shut it down...In the recent period, several countries have decided to shut down multiple websites but the authorities avoided to provide the rea... |
24 October 2007
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